Since fedora releases about every 6 months and only supports two old releases you really
need to upgrade either one version every 6 months or two releases in a yearly upgrade
session.
If you need to run a distro that is quite like fedora but can be kept for a longer time
look at CentOS (pure RHEL clone) or ScientificLinux (RHEL clone geared for the scientific
community).
Right now F20 would be the oldest supported version. As soon as F23 ships F20 will be
dropped as well. As you have noticed some mirrors keep older versions around for some
time, but you can't count on it.
Shane <shaned173(a)gmail.com>:
Hi,
I'm using Fedora18 x86_64. (Yes, it's old.) Within the last few
days I found that I cannot install or list anything from the fedora-18
repo via yum. I get the typical errors everybody complains about "no
repomd" and "metalink.xml does not exist". Common workarounds from
google searches haven't worked.
I opened the link spit out by yum
"http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-18&arch=x86_64"
in a browser. It downloaded a metalink file (no .xml suffix). The 3rd
(or so) line of the file has the following dubious message.
# repo = fedora-18 arch = x86_64 error: invalid repo or arch
Following this line is a HUGE listing of available repos and
architectures. There is nothing shown for fedora-18 arch i386 or
x86_64. In fact, even fedora-source-18 repo is missing. I don't think
this is a yum problem on my system.
Is there something else I can try (yum-wise)? If I need to report it
then where? I'm quite certain that this is the wrong list.
Thanks.
Shane
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